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The Harvard Geospatial Library is the main repository a catalog for geospatial data in the Harvard University Libraries. Originally
developed in 2001 with an internal Library Digital Initiative grant as well as the generous support of the Rasmussen Foundation, HGL
is now part of a broader multi-institutional project. The flagship site of this effort is Geodata@Tufts.

GeoData@Tufts is developed and maintained by Tufts University Information Technology.
Tufts is leading the development in collaboration with Harvard of this open source, federated web application to rapidly discover, preview,
and retrieve geospatial data from multiple repositories. GeoData@Tufts combines an intuitive, map-based search interface along with traditional
text-based metadata search tools for rapid data discovery and for use in teaching, learning, and research.

GeoData@Tufts is part of The Open Geoportal. The Open Geoportal is a consortium comprised of contributions
of several universities and organizations to help facilitate the discovery and acquisition of geospatial data across many organizations and platforms.
Current partners include: Harvard, MIT, MassGIS, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale, and UConn. Built on open source technology,
The Open Geoportal provides organizations the opportunity to share thousands of geospatial data layers, maps, metadata, and development resources through
a single common interface.

For questions, comments, or to report problems, please contact: Site Manager

For questions, comments, or to report problems, please contact: Site Manager

Project Management:

Harvard University Library, Office for Information Systems

Welcome to the Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL)! We are happy to announce that as of 1/15/2012 we are live and have migrated to OpenGeoPortal. We will be making updates regularly.

Please zoom in and pan around with the map and/or enter search terms to begin discovering our geospatial data holdings.